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"THE WEIRD cult of “Judeo-Christianity,” is an oxymoron found on the lips of many Christians including even conservative ones. This abominable "Judeo-Christianity” contrivance is of a piece with the cloning of human and animal genes or any of the other alchemical mixtures of two mutually contradictory substances which we have witnessed these last few decades in the modern cauldron. The near-universal approbation and currency exerted by this cockamamie term exposes at one glance the level of abysmal historical ignorance which obtains today. The Church Fathers knew of no "Judeo-Christian" tradition, since Judaism did not exist before Christ. Before Him, there was the faith of the Israelites as it gradually decayed and was subverted by corrupt teachings such as were transmitted by the Pharisees and Sadducees. This corruption was greatly escalated when a portion of the Israelites rejected the Messiah, Yashua (Joshua, i.e. Jesus), after which their leaders eventually made their way to Babylon, where the corrupt and reprobate, oral occult tradition of the elders was committed to writing and compiled as the Mishnah, comprising the first portion of the Talmud. At that juncture, the religion of Judaism was born. It is the Talmud, not the Bible, which is the hermeneutic system of orthodox Judaism. According to Robert Goldenberg, Professor of Judaic Studies at the State University of New York: “The Talmud was Torah. In a paradox that determined the history of Judaism, the Talmud was Oral Torah in written form, and as such it became the clearest statement the Jew could hear of God’s very word. “ ...The Talmud provided the means of determining how God wanted all Jews to live, in all places, at all times. Even if the details of the law had to be altered to suit newly arisen conditions, the proper way to perform such adaptation could itself be learnt from the Talmud and its commentaries... The Talmud revealed God speaking to Israel, and so the Talmud became Israel’s way to God.” The religion of Judaism as it has been known since it was concocted after the crucifixion of Christ is what is called “Orthodox” Judaism today. The early Church recognized Christianity as having been founded by Israelites and representing the only true religion of the Bible. It is Christians who are “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation...” (I Peter 2;9). Judaism was not viewed as the repository of the spiritual truths or knowledge of the Old Testament, but as a postBiblical, Babylonian cult totally at variance with Biblical Christianity. .... " -‘ Robert Goldenberg, “Talmud,” Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), pp, 166-167.